Dana Jamal, a former employee at Lebanon’s Ministry of Social Affairs who retired in 2015, has gone public with explosive allegations of sexual extortion, physical abuse, and large-scale corruption tied to Hezbollah.
In a post published on Saturday on her X (formerly Twitter) account, Jamal appealed to the First Lady of Lebanon:
"Your Excellency, I turn to you to seek justice and reclaim my rights. I retired in 2015 but was subjected to sexual extortion by a department head under the protection of then-director general Judge Abdallah Ahmad, now an advisor to the Minister of Health... I was also beaten and humiliated."
According to Jamal, she was repeatedly forced to submit to sexual demands from her supervisor, Adnan Nasser al-Din, who operated under Judge Ahmad’s protection. When she resisted, her modest pension—80,000 Lebanese pounds—was withheld.
She also claimed that a UNICEF “grant” meant for her was funneled directly into al-Din’s personal bank account. When she tried to pursue her legal pension, she faced threats, obstruction, and rampant corruption among ministry officials.